Wang Yuan didn't know that Wang Yangming was the same examiner, and he happened to be the examiner of the "Book of Rites" room.

It has been February 15 after the completion of the three exams, and the next thing is to wait patiently, and the results will not be released until February 25.

Various literati gatherings have begun, and no matter whether you are sure of being admitted to the Jinshi or not, it will definitely not be wrong to participate in the literary meeting anyway. Even if it is a fallen scholar, it will also make a name for itself, and it is beneficial and harmless to make a few more friends.

If you make friends with the future Huiyuan and champions, it will be a jackpot, and there will be people in the officialdom to support you in the future.

On the evening of the 17th, Zou Mu returned to the inn and said mysteriously: "Ruoxu, Boqi, go to Juxian Building tomorrow!" ”

Jin Wei was puzzled: "Where is Juxian Tower?" ”

"Qinlou Chu Pavilion." Zou Mu whispered.

Wang Yuan teased: "Friend Zou, you have learned badly, I don't see you visiting the Qinglou in Guizhou." ”

Zou Mu smiled: "How dare I in Guizhou, I'm afraid that my father will break my leg." It's so big, I haven't entered the green building yet, so I just went to see what it looks like inside. ”

"The brothel of the Qinglou is not a gentleman's place, I will definitely not go there." Jin Wei didn't give face and refused directly.

Zou Mu explained: "Boqi wants to be crooked, Juxian Lou is a geisha, I just want to go to a banquet." This time it was Chang Lun Chang Mingqing who invited me to wait at the Juxian Building Literary Meeting, and all of them went to be examines for this subject, which was not as unbearable as you thought. “

"The place where filth and dirt are hidden, you must never go!" Jin Wei still shook his head.

Zou Mu was speechless for a moment, thinking: If you don't go, you won't go, why bother to abuse us and others, and what is the place to hide filth and filth.

Wang Yuan asked, "Who is Chang Lun who invited guests this time?" ”

Zou Mu said in detail: "Chang Lun is from Shanxi, and his family has been in business for generations, so he is very rich. Moreover, his great-grandfather, grandfather, and father were all Jinshi, and they were heirlooms of poetry and rites, and they were the prominent clans of Shanxi. I heard people say that Chang Lun is also a child prodigy, not yet 20 years old this year, and has been taught by Li Xianji (Li Mengyang) and He Zhongmo (He Jingming) since childhood, and he is proficient in poetry and songs. ”

"Li Xianji and He Zhongmo's disciples?" Jin Wei suddenly became interested, these two were both members of the literary world during the Hongzhi period.

Zou Mu smiled and said to Wang Yuan: "If you are empty, you must be able to talk to this Chang Lun." He is a good ranger, talks about swords, has the style of a hero, and has excellent archery skills! ”

"Then I'm going to make friends." Wang Yuan said with a smile.

Jin Wei remained silent until he ran out of dinner, and suddenly said, "Is it really just a geisha singing and dancing feast?" ”

Zou Mu didn't bother to explain: "I don't know very well, you will know when you go." ”

……

In the Ming Dynasty, the city of Beijing had the saying that "the south is the official and the north is the city, the east is rich and the west is expensive".

The southern city is where the six yamen are located, the northern city is more prosperous, the western city is mostly the residence of princes and important ministers, and the eastern city is settled by countless wealthy merchants.

The markets in the north city are relatively common, while there are also markets in the east city, which are all large money villages, pawnshops, pharmacies, restaurants, green houses, silk villages, and so on.

The address of Juxian Building is near the fourth archway in the east of the East City, and at first glance I thought it was a restaurant.

Wang Yuan also called Zhang Yun and went with Jin Wei and Zou Mu. The four of them were visiting the Qinglou for the first time, a bit like a bun entering the city, with a hint of shyness in anticipation.

Even, except for the need to enter the city for the exam, Wang Yuan has not seriously visited the city.

Walking all the way from Chongwenmen to Dongsi Archway, Wang Yuan had a wonderful feeling, and finally appreciated the atmosphere of an ancient megacity.

Not counting residents outside the city, the permanent population of Beijing in the early years of Hongzhi exceeded 600,000. After another twenty years of development, and with the addition of merchants and homeless people, Beijing must have reached a population of one million during the Zhengde period.

On the other hand, Guizhou City is less than 100,000.

Jin Wei was also shocked, but the reason for the fright was different, he sighed: "I didn't expect that there were so many illegal houses at the feet of the Son of Heaven. ”

Wang Yuan said with a smile: "Is there no illegal building in Nanjing?" ”

Jin Wei, who has studied in Nanjing for many years, said: "Of course, there are many in Nanjing, but Beijing is where the Son of Heaven is, and the imperial historians have turned a blind eye to this?" ”

When the Ming Dynasty was founded, the requirements for etiquette were very strict, and the colors, decorations, and materials of the dwellings were specified in detail. But with the development of the commodity economy, the whole social atmosphere has become more open and relaxed. In the east city of Beijing, there are countless wealthy merchants, and the buildings here are all kinds of violations, and their specifications are comparable to the mansion of the minister.

In particular, the guild halls of Shanxi and Jianghuai merchant gangs are so luxurious that they can be directly killed in the Hongwu and Yongle dynasties.

This change in social atmosphere is all-round, and the examination articles in the Zhengde period have also begun to become more gorgeous and innovative. At this time, it was not obvious, but after Yang Tinghe became the first assistant, he became very fast and bold. As a result, the Jiajing Dynasty had to issue an edict to try the article to be simple and concise, and the more fancy the Bagu was written, the more it was suppressed.

The green building called Juxian Building in front of me is also very magnificent, and the carved beams and painted buildings are like noble buildings.

may be due to the relatively high-end reason, there is no situation in the TV series, and there are no bustards and turtles at the door to solicit business - that scene is too unelegant.

When the four of them walked into the hall, a teapot came over and asked, "Which young lady have you made an appointment?" ”

Wang Yuan replied: "Chang Lun is often a public treat. ”

The teapot was suddenly full of smiles, and he bowed down and said, "It turned out to be a friend of Chang Xianggong, please go up to the Accord on the second floor." ”

It was a large room, with several rows of seats, and several scholars had already arrived. There was a screen inside, and there was movement behind the screen, as if someone was tuning the piano.

As soon as Wang Yuan and the others entered, the scholars inside got up accordingly and reported their names, places of origin and the time of the middle lift.

Among them, the more outstanding ones are Wu Yin and Pei Jifang, both of whom are the same as Chang Lun, who invited guests, and belong to Shanxi candidates. In other words, today is the gathering of fellow villagers of Shanxi candidates, and the ghost knows why Zou Mu was invited by Chang Lun.

Historically, this Shanxi Jinshi was very poor, because Liu Jin, who had just fallen, was a native of Shanxi. After Liu Jin's downfall, Shanxi Jinshi was frantically suppressed, and it was not until after the Jiajing Great Ceremony Discussion that they fought back.

After waiting for a while, a burly young man pushed the door and walked in a tigerly manner, which was Chang Lun, who paid for a treat today.

"There was a slight delay on the way, and I was called by the elders to say a few words, so that you friends waited for a long time!" Chang Lun hugged his fists and apologized when he entered the door.

"Three glasses of wine!" The scholars laughed.

Chang Lun's personality is very bold, patting his chest and saying: "Three hundred cups are fine, if you don't get drunk today, you won't return." ”

Chang Lun is a civil and military all-rounder, and he has a bold and upright temperament.

"Haha, it turns out that you are Chang Lun!" Wang Yuan laughed.

Chang Lun was stunned, suddenly recalled, pointed at Wang Yuan and said, "We met in the examination room." ”

Chang Lunzhi's is also "The Book of Rites", and it is not far from Wang Yuan's examination shed with Zou Mu's front and back seats.

Wang Yuan hugged his fists and said: "In Xia Wang Yuan, if the word is empty, Guizhou Xuanwei Siren, Zhengde has been studying for three years, and Zhengde has been raised for five years." ”

Chang Lun replied: "In Xia Changlun, the word Mingqing, a native of Qinshui County, Shanxi, went to school in the sixteenth year of Hongzhi, and was raised in the fifth year of Zhengde. ”

Every time Wang Yuan introduced himself, he surprised the other party, revealing the information that he passed the subject examination in the second year of study, passed the township examination in the third year, and came to the capital to take the examination in the fourth year.

This journey to the test has been too smooth, right?

Of course, Chang Lun's road to the imperial examination was also very smooth, and he was known as a prodigy in Qinshui County at the age of five, and was appreciated by two literary bigwigs since he was a child. At the age of eleven, he was admitted to Xiucai, at the age of eighteen, he won the second place in the Shanxi examination, and at the age of nineteen, he came to the capital to participate in the examination.

It's just that Chang Lun's career is worse than Jin Wei, because he is from Shanxi and has a straight temperament.

Historically, in the second year of Chang Lun's entrance examination, he was appointed as the judge of Dali Temple.

This position often reviews major cases, and an upright person who does not have a backer will certainly not be able to do it for long. Because they can't rub sand in their eyes, they want to correct unjust, false and wrongful cases, and they often offend the ministers and magnates.

Chang Lun was depressed because he couldn't help the wronged criminals overturn the case, and often wrote poems satirizing the corruption of officialdom, and was demoted to Shouzhou as a judge by an unknown magnate.

At the beginning, Chang Lun worked hard in Shouzhou.

Until a certain imperial history inspected Jianghuai and met Chang Lun when he passed Shouzhou. The two used to be friends in Beijing, but they didn't get along well when they met, and the man treated Chang Lun as an official, and he had no old friendship when he put up a shelf, so angry that Chang Lun resigned directly and returned to his hometown.

Although he later made up the official again, Chang Lun no longer had the mind to do politics, drinking and writing poems all day long, dancing with swords and swords, and he wrote poems to describe his life like this: "Horses gallop thousands of miles and shoot a hundred hits...... The diners in the seat are full every day, and the song hits the noisy high-rise buildings. ”

A certain person entered Beijing every day, and got drunk with friends halfway. In the early morning of the next day, before the wine woke up, he wore a purple and red robe, brandished two knives, and rode across the river. Seeing the shadow in the water, the horse stood up and overturned Chang Lun, inserted the blade into his abdomen, and fell into the river and died at the age of thirty-four.

At this time, Chang Lun was still in high spirits, but he didn't know that he would be extremely depressed in the future. He is outstanding in writing, superior in force, young and rich, likes to make friends, is enthusiastic to everyone, and does not discriminate because Wang Yuan, Zou Mu and Zhang Yun are scholars in Guizhou.

"Open the table!"

Chang Lun slapped the case and shouted.

A cleaner walked from the back hall to the back of the screen, and the person who tuned the piano just now was only her maid.